Twilight War

03

Hall of Valor, Genesis Library.

The Genesis Library is located in the hinterland of the Hall of Valor and was built in the Middle Ages 900 years ago.

The most magnificent dome mural on the bottom floor depicts the scene of the god king Odin subduing the evil god Loki.The entire mural is hundreds of meters long. The legendary supreme god holds the silver gun Gungnir made of the branches of the world tree, riding the eight-legged giant Sleipnir, with a solemn face and silver gun. It seems that it is about to break through the screen and throw it to the world at any time.But Loki, who was kneeling, couldn't see his face clearly, only the chains as black as black iron were bound to him clearly, and the blood on his body stained the remaining snow on the glacier beneath him.

Behind Odin are the gods and the heroes of the Hall of Valor, with thousands of troops, mighty and invincible.Behind Loki is endless darkness and blood.

This is the scene of the first twilight battle. Odin imprisoned criminals in the kingdom of the dead, using dragon tendons as chains and snake juice as punishment.

The entire library is full of people who come to borrow books, and those precious documents are placed in an orderly manner on the bookshelves carved from marble.

No one is allowed to enter the top floor of the Genesis Library. This is just a conference room for three people, Wisipel and Don Deville.

"Hey, I heard that the guy you brought back doesn't even know how to use a gun, and he scored zero points for shooting." The young man leaning against the pool table was wearing a white military uniform of the Arthur Empire. The mithril coat of arms, the cuff decoration is a crow holding a branch of the world tree.That is the symbol of the Cassander family in the Arthur Empire.

The young man has a pair of beautiful eyes, like the water of holy spring and lake.

Don De Cassander, Major General of the Arthur Empire Intelligence Department, is carelessly beating the balls on the table into chaos, completely unaware of going into the hole.

"En." The voice was still cold.Visipel lowered his eyes, and his icy blue eyes were set off by slightly golden eyelashes, like golden feathers falling on the surface of a lake.

"You really brought him back because it was related to the Ringwraith?" Tang De completely gave up on hitting the ball into the hole, turned around and looked at Vichypel, resting his chin on the cue stick. "There is no other...reason?"

"Up to you," said Vichypel.

Tang De thought for a while and said, "It can't be your illegitimate child."

Wischpel glanced up at Tang De.

"Okay, but you may really have to find another place to arrange him." Tang De said with a smile, "His Valkyrie Kiss, I am honored, did not pass. By the way, I named the Valkyrie Kiss." , Do you think... Well, it’s great! As far as I know, the agreement between Weir and you is that he will be allowed to enter the Hall of Valor only if he passes the Valkyrie test."

Vehipel didn't seem surprised, "Really."

"His grades are here with me, and he has to pass through me before handing over the final grades to Weir." Tang De said, "If you want, I can help you change the grades."

"It's up to you." Vehipel still looked down at the information in his hand.

"What do you mean by following me? It's up to you whether you can let that poor child enter the Hall of Valor. His fate is in your hands," Tang De said, "How about it? Have you thought about it?"

"Will you be so kind?"

"Of course, after all...our friendship for so many years." Tang De looked at the cue in his hand, "Speaking of which, I have never seen you asking for others in all these years. I remember when I was at the bottom of the military..."

Wischpel lowered his head and continued to read the information, but ignored Tang De. Tang De saw that Wihipel was not interested in listening, so he stopped talking.

"Okay, after an hour, the grades will be submitted, and Weir can rest assured, because the trash he is worried about really won't be able to enter the Hall of Valor, and he won't have to bother him anymore." Tang De Shrugging his shoulders, "Okay, I'm going to change the materials back, and the grades will be stored in the database immediately after an hour, and I won't be able to change the grades even if there are ten." Tang De picked up the materials and walked outside go out.

Wischpel was still looking down at the documents.

Tang De walked to the door and looked at Vichypel, who still had his head down and looked indifferent, "Well, it seems that this illegitimate child is definitely not his own."

"return."

Just as Tang De was about to step out the door, he suddenly heard Wischpel's voice behind him.

Tang De raised his eyebrows, turned around slowly, and watched Wichpel look up from the file.

Wisipel looked up at Tang De, raised his hand to signal Tang De to give him the grade, Tang De threw the stack of papers in his hand, "I lied to you, that guy was lucky to be stuck on the passing line Whether he can pass or not depends on the Sword of the Goddess. It is also considered his fate, and he can still pass with a score of zero in shooting."

Wischpel ignored him and picked up the stack of papers and looked at them page by page.

Tang De leaned on the pool table and threw a billiard ball to play, "You look so serious, he can't really be your illegitimate son, right?"

"Wait for the results of the Sword of the Valkyrie. If he fails the Sword of the Valkyrie, I won't keep him," Vehipel said.Later, Tang De sat next to Wisipel, with a malicious smile on the corner of his mouth, "Your Highness, do you know what your behavior was like just now?"

"what?"

"His Royal Highness Vihipel, the defender of the order of the Arthur Empire, the glorious and holy governor of the Empire, actually secretly bribed the head of the Empire's Military Intelligence Department, which violated the order of the Empire."

"You, Your Highness Vichypel, actually changed the grades of a child from Donghuang without authorization. Do you know that you are unfair to the tens of thousands of other imperial youths who participated in the Valkyrie trial!"

"You have failed the trust of the people of the whole country. You are sorry for all the people of the Arthur Empire. And I, as the chief of the Military Intelligence Department, actually witnessed this chilling scene." Tang De shook his head again and again, with a heartbroken expression look.

"Do you know that you have disrupted the order of the empire?" Tang De asked Wisipel righteously.

Wischpel's hand flipping through the report card suddenly paused, and after a while, he suddenly said, "I know."

"Knowing that you still do it." Tang De poked Wischpel's chest with his finger, "Won't your conscience feel uneasy? Hmm? Where's your conscience?"

"And now, how much the witnesses of all this want to expose this man's hypocrisy to the people of the whole country, but I know that once I do this, the Arthur Empire will never find another one who can stand up to it." Such a responsible person." Tang De shook his head again and again, "So, Your Highness, as long as you give me some hush money, how about I never mention this matter in the future?"

"Then tell Will that you want to change your grade." Wihipel glanced at Tang De.

"Okay, okay, just kidding."

"However, Your Highness, do you know what your behavior is?" Tang De leaned on the sofa and looked at Vesper with a teasing look.

"It's an act of disrupting order." Vehipel said with a serious face.

"It's partiality, you actually favor a child from Donghuang so much." Tang De said with a raised lip.After speaking, he raised his eyebrows and poked Wichpel's chest.

Wischpel was still flipping through the documents in his hand.

... favoritism?

04

The top floor of the Genesis Library.

Hearing footsteps coming from the door, Tang De quickly snatched the transcript from Vichypel's hand and hid it behind him.

"Bringing such a waste back here is just adding to the chaos. I think his physical fitness might as well join Tang De's women's army." Weir's angry complaints could be heard from a long distance away.

Because women have a unique talent in collecting information, most of the girls who joined the Hall of Valor directly chose to join the Military Intelligence Department, and Tang De, a major general of the Military Intelligence Department, was always called the commander of the Women's Army by Weir.

Tang De himself quite liked this position surrounded by a group of beautiful girls from the Hall of Valor, especially after the school uniform of the Hall of Valor was changed to show his calves.

"The girls in the Military Intelligence Department are known as Odin's black crows. If you don't notice the black crows in the sky when the war strikes, you will be bitten to the bone." Tang De raised the corner of his mouth as if Thinking of the beautiful figures of those girls.

"It's just a group of girls who can only gossip. I'm more interested in the recent Valkyrie of the Vana Empire." Weier slowly lowered his body, and slowly tried the club against a ball, his eyes were firm and his face was firm. As beautiful as an ancient Greek sculpture.

"Valkyrie, is that Brunhilde? By the way, she has been with Isabel since Isabel returned from the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel. She is like the Queen's lackey. Did a lot of things, and of course, killed a lot of people."

"It is said that she was also in charge of the final battle of the Glory Expedition, so she was named a Valkyrie. She also stepped on the bones and blood along the way." Tang De suddenly turned around with a chuckle, beautifully One swing sent the ball that Weir had been aiming straight into the hole.

"You." Will looked at Tang De and frowned.

"What?" Tang De tilted his head and looked at Will. "Uncle, don't blame me for being so hesitant."

"You two, don't make trouble." Vehipel leaned against the shadow of the window and said flatly without looking at the two people, "I called you here this time, not just for small talk."

"Is it more important than the annual enrollment of the Hall of Valor?" Tang De twirled the pole a few times in his hand a little bored.

"Jörmungandr has woken up," Vihipel said.

Both Weier and Tang De were stunned.

"Locky's second child, the earthly python that has been sleeping for thousands of years?" Tang De frowned.

Vesper nodded.

"Jemgard." Tang De slowly read the name that should only exist in mythology, as if he could hear the sound of the giant beast's scales rubbing against the branches of the world tree.

He remembered that when he was nine years old, he stole the key to the basement level of the Genesis Library kept by the family.

The first floor of the Creation Library is the revelation of God, which contains all the existing records of the history of God in ancient times. The dome on the first floor is the first battle at dusk that shocked the soul.The next second floor is about the history of people, and the murals inside record the great achievements of those heroes in detail.

The basement floor of the Genesis Library is called Miracle, and no one is allowed to enter except the elders of the various families, and many people don't even know the existence of the basement floor.And what is written there is—the real, the history of God.

Tang De still remembered that when he opened the giant door, he seemed to be standing in front of another world, another world thousands of years apart.

Magnificent and majestic—the seat of the gods.

He looked up at the huge murals that were several meters high. The age-old paints had long been corroded, but the faces of the gods were still majestic and sacred.

Odin, the king of the gods, once saw the unalterable future at the expense of his right eye-the twilight of the gods.

When the twilight of the gods comes, the earth will burn, the icebergs will collapse, and gods and mortals will die.

And the gods never knew that it was the No.13 god of Asgard——Loki, who finally brought all this together.

The Ring of Nibelungen, which was contested by Rhine and the gods, was finally owned by Loki, and when Loki possessed the ring that sealed sin and destruction, he slaughtered Asgard overnight.

Then came the war known as the first twilight battle, in which God King Odin killed Loki on the endless ice abyss.

Thousands of years ago, Odin failed to kill Loki not because Odin knew that even killing Loki would not change the fate of the gods, let alone because of pity for Loki.It's because Loki got the phoenix blood, the fetish of the phoenix family. Phoenix is ​​a species that has never appeared in any ancient books, and its existence only appears in the poems of bards.And those who have the blood of the phoenix can have immortal souls. After defeating Loki, Odin found that he could not really kill Loki, so he had to destroy Loki's body and imprison Loki's soul in the kingdom of the dead. , subject to eternal punishment.

Countless people have tried to enter the Nibelungen for thousands of years, not to kill Loki, but for the ring of the Nibelungen, the authority that can make the gods submit.

However, no one has ever succeeded.

That is the kingdom of the dead, the other side of death, how could it be so simple to get there alive.

"After Loki was killed, his second child, Yemengard, got the phoenix blood from his wreckage, and then sank in the boundless deep sea." Tang De said, "Countless people have thought about it for 1000 years. To find Yemengard and get Phoenix blood, but Yemengarde has never been out of the abyss."

"It's like he disappeared into an endless abyss."

"For the past 1000 years, Loki's other two children, Hull and Fenrir, have also been trying to find Jormungandr, but even they couldn't find any trace of Jormungandr." Vihipel explain.

"They're just doing it for the blood of the phoenix." Tang De said, "After all, for the past 1000 years, Hull has gone crazy and wanted her father to come back to the world. But Loki's body has been destroyed by Odin, and Loki's body has been destroyed by Odin. All that remains of Ki is the soul imprisoned in the kingdom of the dead."

"If you want Loki to return, you must find the person who has the pupil of Dusk Burn in Guerweger's prophecy, and you must use the blood of the phoenix as a guide."

"And when the gate of the kingdom of the dead is opened, Loki will wake up on the person with the pupil of the evening burn, and now it is basically certain that this person is Queen Isabel of Vaner. After all, it is the priest of the ancient god of Vaner who said of—she is the one who brings conquest to the gods."

"Now that Yemengard has returned, it seems that Loki's return is not far away." Tang De said while throwing the billiard ball in his hand, but the eyes under his gold-rimmed glasses were so dark that he couldn't see in the end.

Those eyes seemed to still be able to reflect the huge mural he saw on the first floor of the Genesis Library - the Bloody Asgard.

Asgard, the legendary capital of gods, is full of red blood and ferocious beasts. The gods died in battle, and the holy light around the dome of the temple was dyed bloody red.Red frost mixed with blood froze on the totem poles of Asgard, and the corpses of the gods were dumped on the white steps like dead swans.

And the No.13 God with black eyes sat on the shoulder of the Frost Giant, his gaze was cold and disdainful.